About this title: Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway,Imaginative Writing -- an introduction to creative writing -- covers all four genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama. Imaginative Writing discusses elements of craft common to all creative writing before delving into the individual genres. Each of the first five chapters investigates a specific element of craft--Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and Story--from a perspective that crosses all genres. Chapter 6 explores development and revision and serves as a bridge between the craft chapters and genre chapters. The last four ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780321357403ISBN:032135740X
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780321357403ISBN:032135740X
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2006-06-19
ISBN-13:9780321357403ISBN:032135740X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780321357403ISBN:032135740X
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"This is a large and detailed book on how to engage in creative writing. Each chapter contains explanations of various elements such as 'image', 'voice', 'character'. It covers techniques of fiction writing, creative non fiction, poetry and drama.
Each chapter contains short exercises which can be undertaken in writing workshops or by an individual writer scattered throughout the text but handily enclosed in highlighted text boxes. At the end of each chapter, there are short stories, short pieces of creative non fiction, poems and short drama scripts.
The exercises are useful and the explanations of the various categories are detailed and useful as well. However it doesn't have quite the same detailed and precise level of practicality that one finds in Kate Grenville's Writing Book. The other difficulty I have is that it is not always clear how the pieces of writing at the end of the chapter form examples of what has just been discussed.
In addition to this, as the book goes on, the selections of material become a veritable gloom fest leading into serious slit your wrist territory. It is not necessarily material that I wish to inflict on my students or myself as the weeks of the teaching semester wear on. The selections of poetry on the other hand are a bit less maudlin and I found some of the pieces quite clever and amusing.
The other problem in working with this book in an Australian context is the overwhelming focus on North American examples and literature which has a rather alienating effect. The most effective way for me to use this book is to modify the exercises to give them a more local flavour and to ignore most of the examples of short stories and creative non fiction at the end of each chapter and set other material for the students."
"I really enjoyed the stories and poems that were in this book like snow day by billy collins, sitting with the dead by william trevor, interpretor of maladies by jhumpa lahiri, the school by donald barthelme, trials of a tourist by annie tibble and more"
"Excellent basic reference for any writing class, including composition--not just creative writing! The exercises are great starter points for details, revisions, and developing voice. Loads of material to use."
"A good overview of all four genres. As always, Burroway does a great job teaching the nuts and bolts of good writing, and her own writing is clear and clean and interesting. My one complaint is I wish I liked some of the fiction and creative nonfiction included in the book a little better. But overall, a very helpful tool for teaching an intro to creative writing course."
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